In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly selected a sample of 4 134 single parents who had applied for welfare between January 1994 and March...

[eng] Quebec's young disadvantaged - poorly educated - men performed poorly in terms of employability on the Canadian labour market over the last decade. An analysis of the effects of the government employment schemes designed for them makes this phenomenon even more interesting, especially...

[eng] Job-search theory has enjoyed a significant revival, . boosted by the work of Burdett and Mortensen (1998), who highlighted the fact that employees'on-the-job search behaviour influences the competition which makes itself felt, by way of salaries, between compa nies. The equilibrium is...